Anton Z. Capri

From Quanta to Quarks, Anton Z. Capri

In Quips, Quotes, and Quanta Capri dealt with the physics up to the first third of the twentieth century. This might have been called the "European period" of physics. In From Quanta to Quarks: More Anecdotal History of Physics he deals with developments from before the 1930s until the present. Until about the 1930s European physics dominated even though there were a few Americans such as Michelson, Compton, and Millikan who made seminal and crucial discoveries. Starting in the late 1930s this changed and by the end of the 1940s the USA had emerged as the dominant power in physics. Not only were most of the crucial experiments performed in America, but the new crucial theories were also conceived in the USA. True, some of the "American" physicists—having fled from Hitler—were  of European extraction, but many of the truly great were born and educated in the USA.

Most of the founders, of what is still called "Modern Physics", are now dead. Their names—Feynman, Schwinger, Gell-mann. Oppenheimer—deserve to be as familiar as those of Born, Heisenberg, and Schrödinger. Capri’s generation mingled with these giants and to record some of these memories before this generation also dies out is timely. Some of the stories recorded here are Gossip, or physics folklore. He attempted to verify as many of the stories as he could, but did not hesitated to include all interesting stories that he heard jotted down on scraps of paper. In all cases he tried to select anecdotes that brought out the special character and point of view of the person involved.

Introduction to Electrodynamics, A.Z. Capri, P.V. Panat

One strong positive feature is the detailed, ground-up introduction to vector calculus and special relativity. In fact, a general feature is that intermediate steps are not swept under the carpet. ... Capri and Panat ensure that the reader reaches the destination without mishap.
Rajaram Nityanand Director , National Centre of Radio Astronomy (NCRA), India, Physics Education Journal, 2002.

Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics, Third Edition, Anton Z. Capri

To sum up, this is a careful and comprehensible textbook that could be a valuable reference for students and teachers of a classically-oriented quantum mechan-ics course ...
Adán Caloello,Seville, Mathematical Reviews, 2003.

Problems and Solutions in Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics (Illustrated), Anton Z. Capri

This book is great for advanced topics. Just problems and solutions, but very insightful.
Gregory Bravo, PhD Graduate Student, Astrophysics, A Guide.

Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics, Anton Z. Capri

The overriding merit of Capri's book is that he exploits the requisite mathematics, without fuss, at a level appropriate to an introductory course, taking great pains to explain its relevance to the physics. As far as the reviewer can tell this is the first such attempt in any text intended, like Capri's, as a thorough introduction at the undergraduate level, extending perhaps to first-year graduate work. The physics community is much in his debt and one must hope that in this respect his fashion will be followed by future textbook writers. It is especially impressive that these path-breaking sections, sensibly introducing the notions of functionals, selfadjoint operators, selfadjoint extensions, and rigged Hilbert spaces, occur relatively early, instead of being relegated apologetically to the end of the book, as by many of us they might have been.
G. Barton, University of Sussex, Contemporary Physics, 1986.

Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Anton Z. Capri

This book is a well written, concise account of the traditional approach to relativistic quantum theory. Starting from the Dirac equation, the text evolves into field theory in the operator frame-work. The book will mostly appeal to students studying relativistic effects in traditional nuclear physics problems.
Herbert Neuberger, Mathematical Reviews, 2004.